Or is it all paid for by Mass consumers crossing into NH to buy their liquor and shopping for their MacBook at Pheasant Lane or Rockingham Park (which presumably is eventually reflected in the Mall's RE taxes)?
Almost no matter how you slice it, taxes are disproportionately paid where the economic activity is--where people live or work. In other states, it's directly tapped as income and sales taxes.
In NH, it happens in pretty much the same places, it just happens indirectly via the real estate that wage-earners live and work in which is still lopsidedly the population, retail, and employment (and airport) centers between Manchester and Nashua along US 3 & the rail.
Almost no matter how you slice it, taxes are disproportionately paid where the economic activity is--where people live or work. In other states, it's directly tapped as income and sales taxes.
In NH, it happens in pretty much the same places, it just happens indirectly via the real estate that wage-earners live and work in which is still lopsidedly the population, retail, and employment (and airport) centers between Manchester and Nashua along US 3 & the rail.
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